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by moooo99 4y ago
> Look up Chernobyl. Ukraine already had a meltdown disaster. Spoiler: Europe survived. That sounds like a bare minimum but not really a good argument for or against nuclear power plants. And if you do some research about the Chernobyl d
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by moooo99 4y ago
The appeal for firebase is that you can get away without your own backend for quite a while. It's perfectly feasible to consume databases directly from your frontend app without having to deal with a lot of caching or networking concer
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by moooo99 4y ago
> Therefore private entities are less likely to make bad purchases. This claim gets thrown around so much, I can't stand it. The bigger a company gets, the more bureaucracy you have to deal it. Many big companies/market leaders
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by moooo99 4y ago
Even with IaC you should store secrets only in your environment variables for the CI servers
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by moooo99 4y ago
I really don‘t like Buchpreisbindung. It frequently makes books significantly more expensive than their English originals (I‘ve seen prices 10€ higher than the English version). That’s the primary reason why I choose to buy the original Eng
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by moooo99 4y ago
I'll be closely following the development of matter, especially when it comes to compatible devices. Cloud dependency of many devices for the most basic functionality offered is an absolute dealbreaker for me. While I doubt that there
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by moooo99 4y ago
I'd generally agree with your take, but I think it is a bit more nuanced. I'd say wether gamification is a benefit in the context of enterprise software heavily depends on the kind of software. Are you trying to gamify core job re
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by moooo99 4y ago
I am with Telekom in Germany. I just moved out and got my first ever „own“ internet connection/contract, so no hidden treasures there. What I did learn is that the e-Mail Account that you also used to get from your ISP still works and
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by moooo99 4y ago
> ISPs provided users with some megabytes of hosting accessible with simple FTP. I learned a few weeks ago that my ISP still does this. It’s a bit hidden in the depths of the customer portal, but it is there!
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by moooo99 4y ago
I’ve been solving leetcode questions for a few months now. Primarily for fun because coding interviews aren’t really a thing in my country (salaries comparable to the US aren’t either). It is a really interesting exercise and as you mention
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by moooo99 4y ago
> Umm no they’re not. And the ones that are just have the opposite problem half the year. Very few cities are in a climate where all but the most hardcore people will want to bike more than half the time. I am surprised that you city NYC
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by moooo99 4y ago
To bad self-driving cars won't be ready when we have to technology to convert talking to electric energy.
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by moooo99 4y ago
> Yes, there are always a few folks who will pull their bikes out in 0°F (-18°C) and go out on icy roads, but they are a vast minority. And a lot of cities in the world experience those kinds of temperatures. The majority of population c
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by moooo99 4y ago
Iirc this is even illegal for users that fall under the GDPR since it’s not a sufficient opt in
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by moooo99 4y ago
I dint know if there are similar solutions in professional setups, but in the Smart Home world there are UWB presence sensors like the Aquara FP1. They are much better at detecting minor movements than traditional motion sensors are, so the
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by moooo99 4y ago
This is exactly my thought. There are many influences of this kind that somehow managed to land in my twitter bubble. Many of them telling stories about how writing online changed their lives. But as far as I can tell, none of those influen
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by moooo99 4y ago
I‘m not sure if the benefit of exclusive licensing in music streaming is as big as it is in video streaming. The portfolio available on Spotify (and any other streaming service) is so huge, even if one major artist is missing, you’re still
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by moooo99 4y ago
> You can’t easily prove that your fridge really will last longer, but easy to price the price is low. I'm not so sure about that. In my experience people tend to be less price sensitive with household appliances (big one time purch
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by moooo99 4y ago
> But living in a walking city with a car is even nicer! Not necessarily, because it is significantly more expensive (depending on how you implement it). But one way to get people off their cars and onto public transport could be make pe
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by moooo99 4y ago
> anything other than going to a party at someone's house in the village involved convincing (or bribing) one of the 18 year olds they knew from two years previous at the Realschule, so the most common evening event was drinking bee
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by moooo99 4y ago
> And to be clear I don't want to ban cars. More so, just want to see our country have more options for actual cities other than NYC and Chicago. I don't think banning cars would even solve the issue. Cars are legitimately a go
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by moooo99 4y ago
> Honestly, having had lived in mixed-income neighborhoods, the wealthy are missing out. I cannot understand why cities in the US are built the way they are. I live in a relatively big city in Germany in a somewhat dense neighborhood (mo
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by moooo99 4y ago
> If you have a consistent supply of something then a slow but lower cost delivery method is entirely sensible, as is switching to higher cost but faster methods when there have been interruptions. It might make sense from an economical
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by moooo99 4y ago
Someone who is not a lawyer but had to deal with our legal department more frequently than I wish: it absolutely depends. In German law you are to keep any information regarding invoices for at least 10 years in their original format. This
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by moooo99 4y ago
But just because an application is secure does not necessitate that it is respecting privacy laws
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by moooo99 4y ago
Ticket count dictates headcount, work that isn't tracked with some kind of elaborate process isn't actually work nowadays.
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by moooo99 4y ago
I don’t really have a strong stance on the nuclear energy debate (although I highly doubt that it is as clear cut as the debates make it out to be). But I can’t really blame people for not being too excited about a technology that was first
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by moooo99 4y ago
Depending on your individual circumstances buying "some black-boxes with terrible performance" might be a worthwhile tradeoff
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by moooo99 4y ago
> How do you quantify the cost of missing out on good people that you just assumed didn’t fit the mold? How expensive is that? That is a cost that isn't easily quantifiable. However, the cost of wrong hires is easily quantifiable ba
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by moooo99 4y ago
So you would define an airline pilot as skilled labor but driving an Uber (I have never used Uber, so I will compare it to a taxi) as unskilled labor. Flying a plain certainly takes a skill. So does driving a car. Both are skills. They cert

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